Revealing what is hidden: two egyptian mummies belonging to the National Archaeological Museum (Madrid).

• Esther Pons-Mellado ^[1] ; Silvia Badillo Rodríguez-Portuga ^[2] ; Javier Carrascoso Arranz ^[2] ; Vicente Martínez de Vega ^[2]
  1. [1] Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid)
  2. [2] Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud (Madrid)
• Localización: Canarias Arqueológica: Arqueología-Bioantropología, ISSN 1888-4059, Nº. 22, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Symposium in memoriam Arthur C. Aufderheide the scientist, the friend ( 1922-2013)), págs. 315-327
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Mummification is one of the most important legacies of the Ancient Egyptian civilization. Using th is process the Egyptians believed that they were preserving the body so that it could live eternally. During the Predynast ic Period and the first dynast ies the mummification was a natural process, but shortly after this they started to mummify the dead intentionally, and the practice was perfected little by little until it became a fixed custom, which continued right up until the dawn of the Christian-Byzantine period.

    The National Archaeological Museum has in its collection two female Egyptian mummies with different histories and origins, and both are the result of the trade in antiquities in the 19th century.